On the IBM developerWorks site, there's a new post talking about a new Service Component Architecture module that's been released over on the PECL site - SCA_SDO.

We've just made our first release of SCA on the PECL repository. The code has been added into what was the SDO project and which has now been imaginatively renamed to SCA_SDO (you won't believe how much thought went into that...).

Main features include:

inclusion of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) component

new PEAR packaging to install SCA and SDO as peer directories (PEAR/SCA and PEAR/SDO)

new function in SDO_DAS_Relational to support multiple root data objects

new function in SDO_DAS_XML to support CDATA sections (not yet complete)